The lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas is one of the most productive farming areas in the world. Yet, something appeared to be badly amiss...

Suddenly An Eagle was a documentary of very real distinction, in the Bicentennial year. In parallel stories it told of events and ideas that were...

Excellent writers and producers for Associated Press Radio have taken what is inherently a low-interest topic and produced a remarkably high-interest program with substantial meaning...

The Sea Islands off the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina are a reservoir for the most distinctive African-American culture left in the United States....

National Public Radio merits a Peabody Award for Dialogues on a Tightrope: An Italian Mosaic. Producer Josh Darsa went to Italy following the murder of...

A very real trip back into time—the time of the 30s, the 40s, and the 50s—resulted when KNXT undertook to document what went on at...

Old Age: Do Not Go Gentle is a direct but gentle and sensitive portrayal of the treatment of the elderly in this country. Two years...

The Eyewitness Who Wasn’t is an intriguing title, and WABE-FM in Atlanta developed the title into a highly dramatic and intensely moving documentary of one...

A series of television programs funded by the U.S. Office of Education and called As We See It brought many excellent presentations to viewers of...

The American preoccupation with youth often lets us forget the certainty of growing old and the often cruel and thoughtless shunting aside of those who...

KRON-TV used the multi-talented John D. Ravinovitch to put together a frightening appraisal of the results of herbicide spraying in northern California. The resulting documentary...

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is recognized by the Peabody Board for The Longest Journey, an episode of Open Circuit. This is an exciting and informative...

For three years, WGBH-TV in Boston has presented World as a primary showcase for international documentaries. The Peabody Board found the 1979 series to be...

Broken Arrow: Can a Nuclear Weapons Accident Happen Here? is a disturbing documentary by a first-rate staff at KQED-TV, San Francisco. This program examines the...

KTEH in San Jose, California is not one of the large, well-funded public television stations of the nation, but it is obvious that the staff...

Carl Sandburg at Connemara, from the Signature series, wins a Peabody Award for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The producers went to Flatrock, North Carolina and...

KATU-TV, with an excellent news staff, has not limited its documentary inquiries into purely local matters but has sought to determine such things as whether...

It is true that learning can be fun, especially if your teacher is someone who looks and acts and sounds and interprets like Bill Moyers....

The Amazon River Basin has always been an area of little travel and much mystery. Thanks to the efforts of Turner Broadcasting System and Captain...

Seldom does a radio station devote the time and energy which WAFX did to retelling and tracing the impact of an historic event. The staff...

During its deliberations the Peabody Board viewed a number of documentaries submitted by the Frontline management team, seeking one which would, by its very excellence,...

This is a repeat appearance by FRONTLINE as a winner in the Peabody Awards competition. The exceptional four-part series, aired in the Spring of 1985,...

There are good television documentaries and there are exceptional television documentaries. Heritage: Civilization and the Jews is, in the opinion of the Peabody Board, an...

Three years ago an East-Indian religious sect known as the Rajneeshees moved into Central Oregon and set up a new community, arousing suspicion, fear, and...

One of the major international news stories of the decade is the continuing famine in Africa. Facing overwhelming logistical problems and censorship by unfriendly governments,...

There probably has never been a time when education was not a problem in some communities throughout the world. Moreover, there probably isn’t a radio...

Recent years have seen a plethora of documentaries concerning Vietnam. Few have examined the country as it now exists—a country struggling with a bitter legacy...

Exposure of political corruption has long been a hallmark of investigative journalism. The central role of television in such investigations is revealed by WSMV-TV, Nashville,...